Regional Engineering Manager - North

Sainsbury's is hiring a Regional Engineering Manager - North in Manchester, United Kingdom. Level rates it ; you can apply on Sainsbury's.

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Level rates this role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
Tools and skills the posting cites include fleet management, engineering management and compliance.
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Lead fleet and Mechanical Handling Equipment operations across multiple sites ensuring safety, compliance, and cost efficiency.

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Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Regional Engineering Manager offers the opportunity to lead and drive fleet and Mechanical Handling Equipment (MHE) operations, ensuring compliance, safety, and cost efficiency across multiple sites.

With a focus on innovation and continuous improvement, this role provides a platform for developing strong internal and external networks, managing complex engineering projects, and influencing positive change within a dynamic logistics environment.

As part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team, you will have the chance to make impactful decisions, foster relationships with key stakeholders, and contribute to the overall success of our supply chain and logistics operations.

What you'll do
You will play a crucial role in overseeing fleet compliance, uptime, and costs across multiple sites, both in-house and with third-party logistics providers. Your responsibilities will include investigating fleet incidents, ensuring root cause analysis is conducted, managing SLAs with external suppliers, and monitoring fleet and Mechanical Handling Equipment (MHE) uptime to ensure compliance with operational standards.

Additionally, you will lead engineering projects, develop cost-effective solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive engineering standards and efficiency improvements within the organisation. Your role will be pivotal in maintaining safe and efficient fleet operations while driving sustainable practises and compliance with legislative requirements.

Who you are
You are a seasoned professional with extensive knowledge of fleet, Mechanical Handling Equipment, and compliance legislation, coupled with significant experience in logistics operations and engineering practises.

Your sharp commercial focus, ability to identify cost savings and efficiencies, and proven track record in managing end-to-end projects demonstrate your capability to drive fleet and mechanical handling equipment operations to meet safety, legal, and operational standards.

With your resilience, positive mindset, and strong stakeholder management skills, you excel in making critical decisions, influencing at senior levels, and implementing engineering solutions that optimise operational performance and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work/life balance. That’s waiting for you right here. Supply Chain and Logistics is the engine room that gets thousands of products from farms and factories, through the business and to millions of customers every day. We plan around everything from barbecue weekends to Sunday roasts, supporting those who want oven-ready cauliflower cheese and those who prefer to make it from scratch. Insight and data are everything. But so is judgement — when there’s an issue or ambiguity anywhere, we’re often the first to spot it. There’s a big transformation underway. It calls for people who champion change, bring others with them, and collaborate and communicate. Because those people can go a very long way here. C5-C50

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private heathcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibiity criteria may apply).

How we rate this

Regional Engineering Manager - North at Sainsbury's rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

Regional Engineering Manager - North is an open job at Sainsbury's.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
The job was posted on October 12, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Sainsbury's. Apply on Sainsbury's

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